Leroy Whetstone wrote:

>     I have never seen a virus on a computer. Been lucky I guess :)

Lucky or just sensible. ;-)

My dad's PC seems to periodically become infected by... *something* or 
other. Usually just trojans and browser hooks. I don't know what the 
heck he does that I don't, but I've never had any similar problems...

> I was the local greek that every one who ask for help on their computers 
> in our naborhood. Every time a new virus came out everyone thought they 
> had it.

Ah yes, I've seen this so often. "Ooo, my computer is doing something 
wierd. Is it a virus?"

Also, does it make you chuckle when you see those emails warning you 
that "omgz, this nuu virus will eraz0rs your memory and make your 
monitor expl0d3!!1!eleven"? ;-)

> One day I got an e-mail that said there is a virus 
> name Such-n-Such(can remember) and if you have this exe file on your 
> computer you need to delete it. Of course it was on my computer. NO!
> I didn't delete it. A little research showed that the file was very 
> important to the operating system. Lucky none of our gang delete it.

Perhaps you refer to

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/jdbgmgr.shtml

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